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How to start Activity in adapter?

I have a ListActivity with my customized adapter and inside each of the view, it may have some buttons, in which I need to implement OnClickListener. I need to implement the OnClickListener in the adapter. However, I don’t know how to call the function like startActivity() or setResult(). Since the adap…

Comparing XML in java

Here are two XMLs , I am trying to compare and put the respective data in excel sheet. I have a multidimensional array called provisions. AND Now this XML data is for 2 plans and my provisions array contains provisions == [[Plan Features,,][Deductible,,][Individual,,]…..] This is what I have done The pr…

Editing PDF text using Java

Is there a way I can edit a PDF from Java? I have a PDF document which contains placeholders for text that I need to be replaced using Java, but all the libraries that I saw created PDF from scratch and small editing functionality. Is there anyway I can edit a PDF or is this impossible? Answer You can do

Convert RGB values to color name

How can I convert a color in RGB format into a color name? Examples: (0, 0, 255) -> “blue” (255, 0, 0) -> “red” (128, 128, 128) -> “grey” Answer Populate a list of “known” colors. For each known color compute: Return the name of colorI for which rgbDist…

Remove all empty lines

I thought that wasn’t that hard to do, but I want to remove all empty lines (or lines just containing blanks and tabs in Java) with String.replaceAll. My regex looks like this: But it doesn’t work. I looked around, but only found regexes for removing empty lines without blanks or tabs. Answer Try …

Custom HashMap implementation

This question was asked to me in an interview. I think the only way to get best solution is SOF. So the question was “How would you implement a custom HashMap in java(Assume there is no such data structure called HashMap)”. The only answer I could think of was by implementing Associative Arrays (b…

How can I find whitespace in a String?

How can I check to see if a String contains a whitespace character, an empty space or ” “. If possible, please provide a Java example. For example: String = “test word”; Answer For checking if a string contains whitespace use a Matcher and call its find method. If you want to check if …